Screening-shovel.



O. THIBAULT.

SCREENING SHOVEL.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1913.

Patented Feb. 17, 1914.

l/Vl/ENTOR 077631 7776 272256111X ATTORNEYS ONESIME THIBAULT, 0F FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

SGREENINGr-SHOVEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 11, 1913.

Patented Feb. 17, 1914:. Serial No. 789,307.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ONI JSIME THIBAULT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Screening-Shovels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in the class of shovels adapted for screening or sitting cinders, coal, and other like commodities.

The invention is hereinafter described in detail, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the shovelblade including a portion of thehandle. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

The shovel-blade is formed of thin metal, preferably of wrought iron or steel struck up in dies into the required form. It is pro vided with a series of transverse rows of bars or strips 1 and 2, those indicated by the first numeral being raised or bowed up ward and the intervening or alternate ones, indicated by 2, being bowed or depressed downward. The strips or bars are formed by slitting the blade and bending the portions between the slits alternately in opposite directions. The rows of bars are arranged a short distance apart, and the several strips or bars are arranged parallel to each other and parallel to the longer axis of the shovel-blade. The strips or bars are narrow and of uniform width throughout their length, and it will be seen that, by the alternate and contiguous arrangement of the upwardly and downwardly bent or bowed bars, openings are formed on both the upper and lower sides of the blade, which permit ashes or coal dust or other line comminuted material to pass readily through the blade while larger pieces are retained on the shovel. It is apparent that the form or slight convexity of the bars, which is in a direction to the length of the blade, enables the latter to be easily inserted in or under cinders, coal, or other material requiring to be sifted or screened. hen a shovellul of the material is raised, the side of the blade is struck against the side of a receptacle for the finer material, which causes the latter to pass easily and quickly through the openings formed by and between the bowed bars 1 and 2.

The shovel-blade may be cheaply and easily produced by means of cutting and shaping dies.

lVhat I claim is 1. A screening shovel having its blade provided with a series of slits and having the material between the slits bent alternately in opposite directions to form a series of contiguous bars projecting alternately from opposite sides of the blade.

2. A screening shovel having its blade provided with a plurality oi longitudinally extending slits arranged in transverse and spaced rows, the material between the slits of the several rows being bent alternately in opposite directions to form a series of longitudinally extending contiguous bars project ing alternately from opposite sides of the blade and arranged in transverse rows.

ONESIME THIBAULT.

l/Vitnesses lVILLIAM C. GRAY, lVnLLAM S. JACKSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

